Sealed cardboard box with a blue sticker indicating the contents are 25 copies of the new book Making the Liberal media
How to Make the Liberal Media
Step 1: Receive a box from your local postal worker.
Couples counseling should be about creating equal partnerships. Instead it often helps men feel better about their shortcomings—without doing much to fix them. @lsherper.bsky.social is brilliantly exploring the limits of therapy in a patriarchal world.
“Will anyone in the Epstein files be held accountable?” What you have to understand is that while sexual violence is technically illegal and frowned upon in the abstract, in practice it is accepted, ubiquitous, de rigeur, and a primary vehicle for male bonding.
Me and my friends are always saying “journalism is better when it’s backed by live markets”
Couples counseling should be about creating equal partnerships. Instead it often helps men feel better about their shortcomings—without doing much to fix them. @lsherper.bsky.social is brilliantly exploring the limits of therapy in a patriarchal world.
Rev. Jesse Jackson's "I *am* somebody..." remains one of the all-time great pieces of 20th century rhetoric / agitprop
And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹)
RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless
Sorry to report that the ghosts of Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter left my kids lumps of coal this President’s Day. (They took “Rewilding the University” instead of “US Presidential History” 🫤)
In Dan Wang’s Breakneck, American industry is stifled by the “lawyerly society”; but “bankerly society” is more like it. Financial logics commit US tech-capitalists to build more expensively, riskily, and, often, shittily than their Chinese rivals.
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/the...
Kojève approached Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit rather like a Christian theologian interpreting verses from the Hebrew Bible, conjuring meanings not so much from the text itself as from subsequent events and revelations
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
I cannot sufficiently underline how despicable it is that the IOC has required Haitian Olympic athletes to remove an image representing the leader of the Haitian Revolution (against SLAVERY) from their uniforms.
Odysseus of Ithacambridge, MA
Very fortunate to be working with @seamus-malekafzali.com on this book!
“With Amazon and Walmart, it’s King Kong vs. Godzilla. Either way Tokyo’s fucked.” - Whole Foods Vice President Errol Schweizer
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...
Abolishing ICE is the moderate position. The whole DHS needs to go.
“With Amazon and Walmart, it’s King Kong vs. Godzilla. Either way Tokyo’s fucked.” - Whole Foods Vice President Errol Schweizer
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...
THEY WILL NOT BREAK US
THEY CAN NOT BREAK US
THEY DIDN'T BRING ENOUGH GUYS
FOR EVERY ONE OF US THEY TAKE, ONE HUNDRED MORE TAKE TO THE STREETS
THERE WILL FOREVER BE MORE OF US THAN OF THEM
THEY STAND FOR NOTHING, WE STAND FOR EACH OTHER
THEY WILL REGRET COMING HERE
MINNEAPOLIS WILL WIN
I don’t know, seems woke!
At the Harper’s office, each intern is given a cardinal direction, reflected in their email address (i.e., north@harper.org) and then a desk that is—for reasons nobody could explain—oriented opposite their direction.
@nyreviewofarch.bsky.social
nyra.nyc/articles/666...
WHICH KIND OF CHÂTEAU RENOVATION is me? Rock star? Relic thief? Australian? In the châteauverse, the logic of a 2010s Buzzfeed quiz is projected onto medieval parcels.
@nyreviewofarch.bsky.social
nyra.nyc/articles/gro...
The Iranians Who Feel ‘Betrayed’ by the Left As the Islamic Republic massacres protesters, exiles are dismayed by the lack of sympathy from the American left. By Gal Beckerman
The Atlantic laundering yet another right-wing narrative into the mainstream
www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
CBS News is doing Fridays the right way.
by Ezra Klein
Quite frankly, it’s outrageous that Mark Carney is cutting Statistics Canada. If he was Stephen Harper or Pierre Poilievre, I feel like this would be getting a lot more backlash.
Carney of all people should know the importance of high-quality data and information about the country.
Buckeyes don’t need RFK to tell them to eat real food
A Cat Left Paw Prints on the Pages of This Medieval Manuscript When the Ink Was Drying 500 Years Ago
Scott Adams for comparison
"Through INTERSEX, we can begin to imagine the true demedicalization of intersex. By admitting the failure of the promise of normalization...we can see the necessity of charting a new way forward..." Read the full review from SCIENCE. buff.ly/TZ5mFNO
boy that gyre sure keeps getting wider
A photo of teenage Claudette Colvin in glasses and a sweater.
Friends, Claudette Colvin—the 15-year-old who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in March 1955 & joined the federal case against bus segregation that went to the Supreme Court — died today at age 86. But there are lots of myths and mis-impressions about her. A short corrective thread:
Welcome to Minnesota, fuckers. Also this is super disturbing because the ICE agent's assault rifle appears to fire as he falls down.
This was filmed by a friend near Chicago and Lake last night.
